“We dodged a metaphorical bullet – and likely quite a few literal ones – by having as our oppressors one of the classes of people it’s okay to bad-mouth.”
Plymouth Rock, November 28 – The indigenous tribes, some of whom helped the Pilgrims acclimate to the unfamiliar climes of New England four hundred years ago, only to have waves of European newcomers dispossess, slaughter, and dehumanize them, and colonize the continent over the ensuing centuries, took some solace this Thanksgiving Day in the fact that at least political correctness allows them to denounce those Europeans – mostly Christians – as oppressors and racists, which they could not do under the current sensibilities had the oppressors and racists followed Islam instead.
Members of the various Algonquin, Iroquois, and other groups in what became the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada joined representatives of other alliances and tribes further to the south and west in agreement that, even given the genocide that “the white man” perpetrated against the First Nations, they still have the silver lining of begin able to call out that genocide and its attendant crimes – discrimination, kidnapping, exile, intentional spread of deadly epidemics, repeated treaty violations, and numerous other atrocities – without facing backlash from progressive activists, because the people who stand accused venerate, for example, Jesus. Were the accused to venerate Muhammad above others, the accusations would prompt charges of Islamophobia, and trigger immediate cancelation.
“We know it’s not cricket to call Muslims colonialists, occupiers, and oppressors, for some reason,” acknowledged Charles Whitefeather, a member of the Lenape. “Thank the gods, or God, whatever, because we’d be in a tough spot complaining about our suffering and dispossession if that’s what we were up against. Imagine the progressive temper-tantrum that would ensue when we denounced the ‘settler-colonialism’ of those who swept out of the Arabian Peninsula in the seventh century and conquered everything from Iberia to Indonesia.”
“Good thing it was other people doing the conquering and dispossessing,” he continued. “My brothers and sisters among the indigenous Americans all agree we dodged a metaphorical bullet – and likely quite a few literal ones – by having as our oppressors one of the classes of people it’s okay to bad-mouth.”
Sarah Longwell, a Cherokee, expressed frustration that while she and her people struggle to keep their plight in the public consciousness, Muslims such as the Palestinians, by and large, despite forming part of the settler-colonialist empire that stretches from Morocco to the Pacific Ocean, claim indigenous and oppressed status themselves, and, when they leave their birthplaces, claim some other kind of entitlement and victimhood by virtue of their status as migrants.
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